The month of September has some new and exciting shows for us to attend. One of the events that we will be showing at is the Auto Gallery Show by our good friends Team Praxis. This show looks promising because of the venue; it will be along Pacific Coast Highway in Huntington Beach. It’s a show where you can soak up some rays and check out cool cars & should be a good time.
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I’ve been missing the Lowballers lately; it’s been a really long minute since we hung out. In our honeymoon phase, we saw each other every week. One week, we would make the trip to Vegas and the other week, they would come to Cali. Nowadays, we rarely get together, but when we do, it’s epic. Gerald and Chivas came down for Nisei and since we were at the Infamous, we didn’t get to hang out that day. The next morning, Gerald hit us up and we did some old school bromancin’.
Gerald wanted to show us how he get’s down.
Did my photo coverage of Infamous on the Hella Flush site, you can check out my coverage here.
http://hellaflush.com/society/the-infamous-coverage-part-1/
http://hellaflush.com/society/the-infamous-coverage-part-2/
Here are some of the photos that I didn’t post up, kinda NSFW.
Justin getting a 6 o’ clock from Chris.
Illest BB gun. (more…)
Royal Origin and IMKING are hosting a pre-meet for the upcoming show “THE INFAMOUS” by Hellaflush and Canibeat. It will also be a photo exhibition displaying photos from some of the infamous local automotive photographers in the area. There will also be discounts to shop in the store and food trucks. Come out if you enjoy photography, bomb food, and of course, cars!
Wekfest Long Beach was one of the most anticipated car shows that I have been waiting for. One reason was because I was planning to show my car, and another reason was because I knew it would bring out the best of the best that SoCal has to offer.
I was hoping to have a lot done on my car for Wekfest, but time was not on my side. I was really busy with school, trying to get ready for finals, and work took up all my time on the weekends, so I ended up not changing anything. I did add one big piece of information, and that is my car is for sale. That was the main reason why I wanted to show my car at Wekfest. I wanted to promote it and let everyone know that it’s for sale. But enough about my car and me, and onto the show. Wekfest was spectacular like always. I felt like it was better organized than last year. We did not have to wait a long time to get our cars into the show, and the parking situation was well-planned and organized. The finest cars came out and displayed what they had. I noticed that the VIP style is very popular this year, and is becoming something very main stream. There were also a lot of nice functional cars on display ranging from Subie track cars to tracked out Civics. The styles of builds were endless.
On to the pictures!
I started off on the asphalt, where all the vendor cars were, and the first thing that caught my eye was this crazy Honda Insight. That is definitely the best-looking hybrid I have ever seen!
On June 2nd, 2012 Weksos Industries brought Wekfest down to Southern California. Wekfest LA 2012 was held at the Queen Mary events in Long Beach, CA. After throwing some awesome car shows in the past, Weksos Industries sure did not disappoint.
The official Wekfest LA entry stamp.
Welcome to the GG Underground, a place for Royal Origin and friends to go to when we want to relax after enjoying a day with each other, and just want to shoot some cars to end the night. We met up with Chris Foreman and his friends from Ladera Ranch, and Jomar and Josh from Temecula/Murrieta at our favorite place, Tastea, before heading to our late night spot. Check out my video below and our pictures from that night.
CRZ surprisingly had enough room in the trunk for two people to play cards in it.
Finally, the Formula Drift season was here! I was getting bored of going to car meets and shows, seeing the same thing over and over. I really wanted to do some motor sports kind of photography. This year, there were many new sights at FD, such as the Scion FRS that Ken Gushi drove, and Daigo Saito from D1GP competed and brought his Lexus SC430 mated with 3.4 liter Brian Crower stroker 2JZ-GTE. There was an in-car video on youtube of Daigo driving it on practice day and it sounded insane. Got me super excited to witness the monster in action. As soon as I arrived at the parking structure, I could smell the burning rubber and hear the screech of tires drifting. It got me giddier than a high school girl who just got asked to the prom.
Saw the Megan-racing AE86 on the way to the entrance.
William Lee of Night Import hosted a meet. Shavi, Minh, and I decided to go check it out. We thought that it would have a crazy turn-out, but what we encountered last night was much more than we anticipated. Lines and crowds of people were in the structure that the meet was held at. It was like swimming in a sea of people.
It seriously felt like we were in the Tokyo Drift movie, getting ready to drift in between pillars. The crazy thing was, we got there when the meet was already dying down. Will told us that earlier, cars were coming in from every direction, and that he was so sure that cops were going to end it. Luckily, no cops showed up, and the meet was a success. (more…)
Our Wekfest weekend began on Thursday night. The roadtrip wasn’t too bad, well for me and Minh it wasn’t. We were basically KTFO the whole time, while “Roadtrip Warrior” Shavi chauffeured us all the way there to NorCal. The following day I hit up Andy @Fatlace, and told us to slide thru the Fatlace Paddock and he gladly showed us around. We got to see all the cool stuff going around the shop/warehouse. We also got to meet a lot of the Fatlace Crew members who were very nice and welcoming. We kicked it there for awhile, took some pictures of the nice shop cars and they even fed us some awesome BBQ! Thanks to the Fatlace crew for the hospitality!
Here’s the “Road Trip Warrior” getting ready to bounce
At the Paddock in San Mateo
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